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Message-Id: <200909182248.21032@blacky.localdomain>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:48:20 +0400
From: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@...msu.su>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8
> I'm having troubles booting 2.6.31 on Fedora 8. The same kernel
> boots fine on F11, but on F8, it cannot find the root logical volume.
>
> One thing I notice is that F11 uses root=/dev/mapper... and F8 uses
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 in grub. It's not clear to me what
> the value of mapper should be...is there some way to figure this
> out from an older kernel (2.6.29) that boots fine?
I've recently faced a very similar problem, trying to boot some "modern"
kernel on debian etch system.
It was solved by putting more recent lvm2 binary into initrd.
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